LGS 305 Legal Reasoning

(1 to 3 hrs.) This course introduces students to the elements of legal reasoning, which is the tool that lawyers and judges use to formulate logical arguments and arrive at justifiable decisions about the law. It involves a clear and precise use of language, deduction, induction, conditional logic, syllogism, analogy and other tools. The skills learned in this course should be valuable to students not only in their legal careers, but also in assessing arguments throughout their lives.